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A BROWNING FORTRESS.


Three Hundred Police in aud About the
Jail Building--A View OF the Gaifaws.
fa CIiitAGo, Nov 1.-THE county jail
was Il froWning fortress indeed. The
streets about it were roped off, and even
occupants of the business houses end
dwellings situated inside the lines hal
difficulty in passing through the po!ics
guards. Nearly 200 officers were Oh
duty in and about the build.n, 4,
fully ene-haIf of them being Oh
tie streets or on tbs roof of tine criminal
court building and Jail. Others were
stationed in the windows of adioining
buildings and all were armed with Win
! chester rifles Capt. Blckley's staIwart
form WAS seen about the Michigan street
entrance, and only newspaper men anil
holders of tickets were allowed in the
line. The. crowds would have been
5 larger if the police had not been sEgiE.:st
and kept the spectators moving Pass
on, gentlemen, 7 was the polite request
which, II not needed, was followed by an
ungentie shove and the spectator would
find himself moviHg.a No anarchist
would eyer attempt to force an Eentranee
through the line of bayonets that con
fronted everywhere about the, building.
The GaflOws,
90 The gallows for the hanging were To-
Gated in the extreme northeast corner Of
the cell rooia. An inspection Were made
OF them during the night by
the press representatives, They
are the largest ever erected
in Cook county They were
originally built for the swinging off of
three Italians, who killed u fell country
man and shipped the remains in a trunk
to Pittsburg. At the time the murderers
were hung the trap was made to comfort
ably hold three men, but to aceommo-
date the anarchists it has been enlarged to
the extent of two feet and half in width
The woodwork of the instrument of de-
struction is painted, or rather stained,
very dull reddish brown, and as seen by
the dim light of the gas Jets was any
thing but pleasant to look upon The
wierd effect Is heightened by the
little sentry box which was
located just back Of the trap.
In this was stationed the man who really
was the executioner. Into this box ex-
tends rope. AT the given signal the un-
known man inside cuts the rope with d
brand new aud especially sharpened
chisel of wide dimensions by striking the
chisel q heavy blow with maIlet.
Down goes the trap, q distance of six
feet, and at the same time the mnrslerars
are launched into eternity.
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TIE EATEEuL NIGHT.
IN


On the evening of May about . 900 people
assembled. Tho managers placed tho wagon
on which the speakers were to stand little
way up Desplaines street from tho Hay
market, by tho mouth of convenient alley,
and at a point where they could have q full
view of the police as the latter advanced
from their Desplaines Street station. Mayor
Carter Harrison was in the crowd and ex-
pressed some surprise at the mildness of the
first speakers, Spies and Parsons. The crowd
was disappointed, too, and was fast melting
away, when Fieldcn took his stand in the
wagon. His most intimate English friends
could not have recognized the mild Metho-
dist exhorter and laborer OF cth.r days. His
fren1ed defamation excited what remained
of the crowd, and their applause reacted on
him, It was testified at tho trial that be
called for Immediate action in these words:
Arm ARMY Throttle and Kill the law,
Then Inspector Bonfield decided to disocrse
the meeting. Seven companies Of policemen,
It's men, in platoons reaching from curb to
curb, marched from their station Of Des
PLANES street north to tho wagon. Ia tney
drew near, Fielden is sworn to have shouted:
hHere ono the bloodhounds; yoa do your
duty and I'll do minef' a 5.o s
Capt. Ward, of the police, called ou..:
'sIn the name Of tho people of the state of
illinois, command you TO peaccably dis
perse!'
Fielden stepped down from the wagon OK
claiming: 4. 1
eWe are peaceable!n sss
It was claimed by the prosecution that the
word .peaceable, was the signal agreed on
There was dead silence for perhaps ten
seconds, the crowd slowly moving OF. and
the police standing firm, when q strange
fizzing soursd was heard near the mouth OF
the alley and thence little ball rose in curve
over the wagon and fell between the second
and third companies Of police. There was o
binding flash, an explosion that was hoard
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reached when 7s3, ,992 Europeans landed in
the United States immigration from Eng
land had declined and that from Ireland
fallen to q minimum; but from southern
Germany there was an immense increase,
while eastern Europe sent Poles, Bohemians,
Russians Hungarians and their congeners by
tens of thousands. In many of these people
hatred of government had become heredi-
tary sentiment Chicago became headquar-
ters for the discontented, and The Arbeiter
Zeitung CWorkers' Journal their organ. Then
sprung up in that city the International
Workingmen's association. The platform or
declaration Of principles of this organization,
as was testified to at the trial, urged that
''the present system under which property is
owned by individuals should be destroyed,
and that all capital which has been produced
by labor should be transformed into COM
mon property" The association was divi-
ded into groups" of which there were
eighty in the United States in March, 1885,
located principally in the cities of industry.
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BECAME UNRuLY.
Mrs. Parsons creates a Sensation at the
Hail hv Her HxstericaI YloIenca

Jail by Her Hysterical Violence.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1.-THE only sensa-
tional feature was the attempt of Mrs.
Parsons to get through the Gordon of po-
lice which surrounded the jail. She ap-
peared on the scene accompanied by her
two children ard about dozen of her
friends. She asked permission to get
through and into the Jail. This was of
course refused, whereupon she became
very violent, attempted to crawl through
under the ropes and force her way
through. Instantly there was great ex-
citemect among the bystanders, and q
rush was made for the scene of the ex.
element. The police tried to persuade
her to desist, but she only became more
violent, demanding to be shot, preferring
to accompany her husband into the great
unknown rather than remain in such an
unsympathizing, uncharitable and wicked
world. She was placed under arrest and
conducted out of the crowd for short
distance and released. Her face shows
the terrible strain under which she has
been living for so long a time.
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SCENE OF THE BOMB THROWING.
Tho Chicago groups were known as the
North Side, the Northwest Side, the Ameri-
can, the Karl Marx, the Freiheit, the South
west Side and jefferson No. l. Schwab,
Neebe and Lingg belonged to the North Side
"group;n Engel and Fischer to the North west
Side and Spies, Parsons and Fielden to the
American. There was also an armed social
istic organization called the Lehr und Wehr-
sVerein, whose members seem to have also
been members of the international groups"
but to have been of higher rank.
The branch of the International Working
mems association which existed in Chicago
during 1885 and up to May 4, 1886, was COM
pact, well disciplined organization. At the
head of it was general or central commit
tee Next to it came the Lehr und Wehr-
Verein. Then came the EARNED sections" Of
tho various "groups," and then came the un-
armed members of the s'groups."
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observation-disclosures.

On tho day after tho tragedy the police de-
scended on every known Anarchist resort in
Chicago and arrested every suspected man;
before morning many had been dragged from
their beds. Every one in The Arbeiter
Zeitung Office was arrested: August Spies,
editor in chief; Christ Spies, his brother;
Michael Schwab, associate editor; Mrs. Eliz-
abeth May Holmes, editorial contributor;
eighteen printers, two reporters and two
messengers. Rudolph Schnaubelt. who. it
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44-caliber revolver and peculiar knife
made from fiat file. All were released
after the inquest except Schwab, Fisher
and August Spies The condemned
and some others were held with
out bail. May II, the grand jury
met and listened to y charge by
the late Judge Rogers; on the 9th they
handedin indictments against the men
since condemned, and Anton Hirsch-
burger and John APPEL besides. On MAX
ing up his case the prosecutor nollied
the Indictments against the last
two, the evidence being insufficient
On the 2lst of June the trial be-
gan before Judge Gary. Three weeks
and three days were consumed in making
up jury; 1,28l talesmen were examined
both sides exhausting every power the
law gave them. The names of the Jury
were as follows:
Frank s. Osborne, foreman; James Fl. Cole,
Scott G. Randall, Theodore E. Denker, Charles e.
Todd, Andrew Hamilton, Charles A. Ludwig.
James IL Brayton, Alanson II. iced, John B.
Grenier. George ". Adams, Howard 7. Sanford.
The trial lasted from July Is to Aug. 20 in
elusive and attracted the attention of the
civilized world-scsrc;ly more by tho impor-
tance of the issues than by tho abilities of
the counsel On beSaIf of the state appeared
States Attorney Julius s. Grinnell, assisted
by Messrs. Frank Walker, Edmund Furth-
man and George C. Ingham; for the accused,
Capt w. p. Black. loses Salomon, W. A
Foster and SigmuM Zeisler. The jury
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L. 80 Il - ~ III
was q afterw ard
claimed, threw tho
bomb, was among
those arrested, but
tho evidence
against him was
not deemed sufh.
cient to hold him
and he was re.
leased. He ilrims-
diately left Ameri-
ca and is now sup
posed to be in Ger
m any. Adolph b
Fischer was ono Of
theprintei's, and on
his person when ar
v,ocAa,3 ,n,
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JUST BEFORE TIE TRAGEDY.

JUST BEFORE THE TRAGEDY.
The evolution of the tragedy was curiously
regular.
First, as has been shown, these men taught
radical Socialism. Next, they organized dis
contented workingmen to act more efficiently
in strikes. The usual trouble arose: "scabsa
took the place of striking workmen, they
were attacked by the strikers, the police were
called ON for protection and the inevitable
question was presented--shall we fghta The
Anarchists, in speech and in The Arbeiter
Zeitung. vehemently urged destructive
measures. They exhorted tho strikers to
fight both the 'sscabs" and the police, gave
minute instructions how to use nitro-g lycerine
and manufacture bombs, and had EARNED
sections' OF their supporters who drilled
nightly and were instructed In the use of
bombs. aFss sI!.aa 4a ss
Al length it was boldly anncnnced that tho
Anarchists had 5000 armed and well drilled
revolutionists in Chicago, and it was proved
that they really had I, 600 at this time, as was
sworn to during the trial The Arbeiter Zei-
tung and The Alarm published many such
sentiments as these:
Daygers and reyolvers are easily to be gotten;
hand grenades are cheaply to be produced.
will the workingmen supply themselves with
weapons, dynamite and prusslc acid?
THE r.0rhingmen ought to take aim aterery
member of the militia. ss /
Aal while the writer's acted with what
they probably considered caution, the speak
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CnE0 M6AUl " .
with his left hand
holding the side of
his head, with his
body bent forward
snd a look OF aug
naented suffering
on his face. At
f1:N the sheriff
finished reading
the warrant to
Spies, and, turn
ing to Parsons,
began to read it to
him. Parsons stood
erect with his
b cad t thrown
slightly back and
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<CA III lue lace
and paid the clos
est attention. His
attention was Mt
traeted to a dep
uty who was put
ting the death
shroud on Engel.
who glanced ner-
vously about him.
The sheriff fin
ished reading the
death warrant to
Parsons at 11:45.
In the meantime
the shroutas had
= a tflr.
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and Spies asked
one of the guards If
the death warrants
had come. He was
very nervous and
seemed to be con
sulned with an in
ternal fever which
sent his hot blood
to his face, flush
ing it to q deep
red. At times u
deatlily paI1or
would spread over !
his features for a !
moment and his |
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PREPARED FOR THEIR DOOM.

The Four Condemned Anarchists Listen
to the Reading of Their Death War
rants. s. 4 545 fa ssE5t
i CHICAGO, Nov. 11.-As the hands on
the big clock in the jail Office pointed to
$3.50 there was little stir at the door
and the guard admitted Chief Deputy
Sheriff Gleason, who bore the fatal docu-
merts sealing the anarchists doom.
Deputy Gleason was met at the door by
Sheriff Matson and they at once retired
to the latter's private room, where they
had a private consultation of several
minutes. Meantime the condemned
men seemed to have re-
ceived an intimation of Gleason Is business
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suppressed by the police with great difficulty
In February, 1886, the workmen at the Nc
Cormick factory struck, and Pinkerton's
men were employed to defend the property,
and thero was riot. On May /, 1856, the
workingmen of Chicago, with few excep-
tions, carried out their plan of general
strike for an eight hour day The strike was
well managed and partially successful. On
May August Spies delivered fierce philip
pic against the non-union men still employed
at the Mccormick works, and there was an
encounter between the 'sscabs" and police on
ono side and the strikers on tho other. A
short and terrible fight occurred; several
men were killed and many more wounded in
various degrees. From tho battle ground
August Spies hurried to the office of Tho
Arbeiter Zeitung, wrote and had printed and
distributed the noted revenge circular.
On May .-.ere was rioting nearly all day
on Blue Island avenue, near the Mccormick
works. The First regiment was ordered to
be in readiness at its armory and the entire
police force was kept in instant readiness
The Arbeiter Zeitung of that morning urged
destructive action, and the Anarchists were
busy among the strikers all day. Thousands
of copies of the following notice were scat
tered through the city:
ATTENTION, woRKIEGMEN!
Great mass meeting tonight at 7:oO o'clock at
the Haymarket, Randolph street, between Des-
PLANES and Halstead Good speakers win be
present to denounce the lntest atrocious acts of
the police-the shooting Of our fellow workmen
yesterday afternoon Workingmen, arm your
selves and appear in full force
THr EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
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came SO great that he could not keep still
! D moment. He called for q glass Of Rhine
wine and gnlped it down at one breath.
I. At 1923 Sheriff Matson and Deputy
Gleason came into the outer Office where
the men sat and the sheriff taking asmaH
bundle of paper from his pocket, began
to tumble them over. He soon began to +
read the warrants and at the first words
the doomed men became alert and list
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THB ANARCHISTS.
History of the Haymarket Trag-
edy in Chicago.
CAUSES OF THE TROUBLE.
Deeds of the Fateful Day---May
4, 1886. @
ARREST NTRThy Aarras Ssazxxrxaw~a~v
ARREST, TRIAL AND CONVICTION.
Judgment Of the Illinois Courts Affirmed
by the Nations Supreme Tribunal.
Portraits and Sketches of the Police, the
Judge, the Jury, the Convicted and
Other Interested Persons-Pictures of
tho Scene of the Tragedy, Court Scenes,
Etc.-Closing Events of the Drama.
Letters of the Condemned, in Which
They State Their Case.
ANARCHY IN AMERICA.

DON after the close
OF the civil war in
the United States
immigration, al
ways Of no mean
proportio ms, in
creased rapidly.
1t was then the
American public
first began to hear
much of conlnun-
ism, socialism and
anarchisrn. In 1882
the maximum was
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LOUIS LINaa's IErTrg.

,ADOLPH FISCHER
SA5 LOUIS LINGa's LETTER.
To MIR. r. J. Ogleshy. Governor OF ulinois: va
Anent the fact that the progressive and liberty
loving portion of the American people are en-
deayoring to prevail upon you TO in.erpose yCur
clare, with my friend and comrade Parsons, that
demand either liberty or death. you arc
really servant Of the people according to the
virtue Of your once unconditionaiIy release M.
Referring to the general and inalitmahie rights
Of men, I b have called upon the disinherited and
pressors-exercised by armed enforcement OF Ia
famous laws. enacted in the interest OF capital
T mitn Iogee % oTaer m e. attain 2 dignii1ad and
their labor. This-and only this - the crirrr,
which was proven against me. n0twiths4A1fffrg
part s e tSs ana sls s
mot only as right, but as Q duty, hythe AHeEiL
can constitution, the representative of which hyuu
are supposed to be in the state OF Ilineia 5as+R
But IL you are not the representative az fha
constitution, ike the great majority Og 6ffscB
holders, mere tool Of the monopolists, Or .
UPON the thirst for blood Displayed by sSa' =.
t0rtioners, because mere mitigation OF tho Tez-
diet would be eowardice anfl ; proof shatp sso
selves abashed at the nonstSosity of nv CO..
lation of the most sacred rights qf The people
M, but also yourself end those whom yos isDss.
P.s.~I1 order tobe sure that i this iessss sas I'm
originsl inanuscTipt 10 registered ere M letter - ~
I GEORGE EHGrL's rErrra. =
Dear Sir-I, George Engel, citizen Of tho Unisra
learn that i Citizens peao e so
the highest executive officer Of the state Of Illf-
nois. TO commute my sentence Ct death TO I'M
prisonnent protest emphatically against this
an am hot aware Of having violated any laws Of
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length. Spies and
Parsons have writ
ten auto b log
raphies, and the
.ondenned m en-,
slieir families and
Mi s S Nina Van
Zandt, who f..ar-
ried Spie S by
troxy, have been
saa objects of gen.
s-al atten tion
s'nce the tragedy.
J tlsky Mrs. Par
IONS, w b o b as
erked so hard
i r her husbands
life, has become
personally known
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aay OF the other condemned men except
Spies, but he made no sound When
the sheriff began reading the
warrant to Fischer, he stood up
and lankad tho in, e
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over the heads of
the four unfortu-
mates, and at ex-
actly 1880 the sig
nal was given.
Down, down, the
trap fell. As the
trap gave way
f isc Ii er cri ed,
"Long live An
archy.'' at 1903
t hey were still
alive. Fisch e r
died harder than
the others. The
pulses of all the
anarchists stopped
beating in 1917
minutes after the
Z. = -. n
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in many cities by reason of her speeches In
his behalf. Mrs. schnaubelt, mother of the
alleged bomb thrower, and Mrs Schwab, her
daughter, were recently brought into special
prominence by reason of the elder lady's visit
to America and the rumor that she had
brought with her full statement of the
facts in the case from her son. Spies, Fielden
and Schwah finally signed petitions for
communication. ALI these things can only
be alluded to here. Among other cuts we
give portrait of Sheriff Matson, of Cook
county. Ills, who, by virtue of his office, has
barge of al executions in Chicago.
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Desired to Make Speeches.

Desired to Make Speeches. }s.;
CHICAGO, Nov. 11.-Spies, Fielden ard
Fischer made a request to the sheriff this
morning that they be allowed twenty
minutes on the scaffold IN which to mako
speeches. The request was written by
Fischer and signed by, them ALL The
request was not granted. E%@
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against 5f..l &c defendants, with sentence of
fifteen years in the penitentiary for Oscar
Necbe, and death for the other seven.
Tho trial began and ended with sensations.
On the first day A r. Parsons, who had
escaped end been in hiding, walked into tho
courtroom, announced his voluntary sur
render and took bis place in the dock wi
his friends. At the close, when asked by the
court II they had aught to say why sentence
Of death should not be pronounced, they all
made long addresses, those Of Parsons and
Fielden being the best That of Spies con-
sisted Of pleading and defiance, reasoning on
liberty and quotations from Scripture In
the course OF his remarks he spoke Of Christ
as Socialist. Schwab and Neebe gave ar
gunents against the regularity of tho trial.
Fielden excited some astonishment by say
ing: THE great Socialist, Jesus Christ, said
1890 years ago: Better that ninety -nino
guilty men should 60 unpunished than that
ono innocent man should suffer- Judge
Gary then sentenced the seven men to be
hanged
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Spies, Parsons, Engel and Fischer
Pay the Penalty of Their An
archistic Utterances.
Fielden and Schwah, by Executive Clem.
ency, Are Saved From the GalloWs
to End Their Lives In Prison.
Three Hundred Police on Duty in
and Around the Building to
Prevent an Outbreak.
Last Night on Earth Of the Doomed Men,
Scenes in and Around the JaiI---The
Anarchists Families.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Nov. 11.--At 2
O'Clock last evening the governors secre-
tary announced form the steps of the ex-
ecutiye mansion that the governor had
decided not to interfere in the cases of
Spies. Parsons, Fischer, Engel and Lingg,
but would commute to life imprisonment
the sentences of Fielden and Schwab. In
regard to the first named the governor
says: ''While would gladly have come
to different conclusion in regard to the
sentence of the defendants August Spies,
Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Albert
r. Parsons and Louis Lingg. regret to
say that under the solemn sense of the
obligations of my Office have been un-
able TO do so.''
4 Capt. Black arrived id this city this
morning, and at once sought the governor
at his home to plead for further delay on
the strength of the alleged discovery OF
new testimony. Governor Oglesby said
he declined to listen to any more argu-
ment and absolutely refused to interfere
further,
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- 7 1NIEHIUH UE TIE JAIL. n ~ ~ -.gIa !
80 say society may hang number of disci-
pies OF progress who have disinterestedly served
the cause of the sons Of toll, which is the cause
Of humanity, but their blood viii work miracles
Ia bringing about the downfall Of modern society
and in fastening the birth OF new era Of civili-
cation. sf7s3 80 +
Magma est veritas ct prevalebet. Il IA
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Spies, Engei and FISCHER, who sbade good
bye to their friends at the door, as
Starting to the Scaffold. $50
AT 11:50 th- men started on the death
march TO the scaffold. Upon reaching
the gallows the nooses were adjusted.
The white caps were then drawn down
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